Defending the right to strike
Rajiv in quicksand?
SRI LANKA ever deeper into the shifting sea of quicksand that the island's ethnic crisis now resembles." While in the Tamil north, "the daily body count is a sobering reminder that the battle will continue to be a bloody one," in the Sinhalese south, the peace accord it-
INDIAN FORCES in the Tamil area of Sri Lanka were put at 40,000 on November 26 by Rajiv Gandhi's defence minister, KC Pant. The figure was nearly double previous estimates. Pant's account of the Indian commitment, given in answer to a question in parliament, seems to reflect a further escalation of his government's involvement in the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict.
The Indian Peacekeeping Force (IPKF) now far outnumbers of the security forces of the Sri Lankan state. Significant voices are beginning to be raised in